Democracy and neo-capitalism in the eighties. The "two" lefts in the face of governance

Abstract

In relation to neo-capitalism thought and its current power, the author asks himself if there are reasons to claim for social justice today. In order to answer this question, he undertakes an analysis of some historical elements that in his opinion would have been decisive to reach the current state of democracy in the West, reeling off some of the ideological differences on governance of democracy that emerged in the left and lead to two different paths within themseñves with the victory of the one identified to social democratic positions. This, he states, a social democracy reconverted in third way, and a communism armed with high-sounding slogans but little substance, share the leftist political clientele in this side of the world.